The first few days in a new workplace are commonly packed with team meetings, trainings, onboarding sessions, and so on. Much ado with little understanding of whats going on. At the same time there are certain rituals that many new hires go in for these days — one of which being posting on social media (most show more ...
Organizations need to take steps now to strengthen their cyber defenses.
Security vendors urge organizations to fix the actively exploited bugs, in Microsoft Outlook and the Mark of the Web feature, immediately.
Organizations recognize that they are responsible for protecting remote workers from cyber threats, but they have a long way to go in deploying the necessary security technologies.
An agency team will identify vulnerabilities being exploited by ransomware groups and alert organizations ahead of attacks, CISA says.
One researcher thinks trust is broken in AD. Microsoft disagrees that there's a security vulnerability. But enterprise IT environments should be aware of an authentication gap either way.
Only by working collaboratively can boards and security leaders make progress and agree about cybersecurity threats and priorities.
The ransomware group sent a message directly to Elon Musk: Pay or the confidential SpaceX information goes up for grabs on the Dark Web.
Organizations must educate themselves and their users on how to detect, disrupt, and defend against the increasing volume of online disinformation.
An analysis of trillions of DNS requests shows a shocking amount of malicious traffic inside enterprise networks, with threats using DNS as a sort of malicious Autobahn.
The zero-day flaw in question is CVE-2022-41328 (CVSS score: 6.5), a medium security path traversal bug in Fortinet's FortiOS that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
The attacks were aimed at stealing personal or business information used by customers to carry out online transactions, and the information was then used to conduct scams such as canceling installment payment setups, according to the CIB.
Hawaii’s Department of Health says it is sending out breach notification letters after a cyberattack in January gave hackers limited access to the state’s death registry.
According to its data breach notice, HACLA discovered on December 31, 2022, that files on its computer systems were encrypted. This prompted the agency to shut down its servers and launch an investigation.
Reports published in the past couple of months by various industrial cybersecurity companies provide different numbers when it comes to the vulnerabilities discovered in industrial control system (ICS) products in 2022.
GSC Game World says it has been enduring cyberattacks for ‘more than a year’ and that hackers demand Russia-friendly changes to the game or else they’ll leak tons of the game’s development materials.
GitHub has added SMS support and fresh account lockout prevention features to its phased rollout plans as it prepares to implement a 2FA requirement for accounts beginning Monday.
According to PeckShield, hackers exploited Euler “in a flurry of transactions” which led to the theft of around $197 million in crypto. Crypto security firm BlockSec also reported the attack.
Cyberattacks and fraud are now too closely linked to be considered separately. But many firms still have investigative fraud teams and cybersecurity teams operating independently, along with the systems and processes that support them.
The Clop ransomware gang has begun extorting companies whose data was stolen using a zero-day flaw in the Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing solution. The extortion group said they used the flaw over ten days to steal data from 130 companies.
Makop ransomware operations are based on the human operator ransomware practice where most of the intrusion is handled by hands-on keyboard criminals, even in the encryption stage.
Ambulances were diverted from the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) Saint-Pierre this weekend following the attack in the early hours of Friday morning. Details about the attack and the perpetrators have not yet been disclosed.
"As part of RVWP, CISA leverages existing authorities and technology to proactively identify information systems that contain security vulnerabilities commonly associated with ransomware attacks," the cybersecurity agency said.
The Boston, MA, and Tel Aviv, Israel-based SaaS security company unifying discovery, access control, and data governance, received an investment from The Syndicate Group. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Ransomware gang Lockbit has boasted it broke into Maximum Industries, which makes parts for SpaceX, and stole 3,000 proprietary schematics developed by Elon Musk's rocketeers.
A Chrome Extension offering quick access to fake ChatGPT functionality was found to be hijacking Facebook accounts and installing hidden account backdoors. Notably, the Facebook app “backdoor” gives the threat actors super-admin permissions.
An open-source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit has found a number of takers in the cybercrime world for its ability to orchestrate attacks at scale. Microsoft is tracking the threat actor behind the kit under the moniker DEV-1101.
Siemens has released only seven new advisories, but they describe a total of 92 vulnerabilities. However, a vast majority are introduced by the use of third-party components rather than being specific to Siemens products.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence stumbled across an open source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit that furthers the ability of hackers to launch organized attacks and also scale it. The threat actor behind the kit is being tracked under the moniker DEV-1101. The kit’s features include setting up landing pages show more ...
This Metasploit module exploits a vulnerability in RedHat based systems where improper file permissions are applied to /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/tomcat.conf for Apache Tomcat versions before 7.0.54-8. The configuration files in tmpfiles.d are used by systemd-tmpfiles to manage temporary files including their creation. With show more ...
I2P is an anonymizing network, offering a simple layer that identity-sensitive applications can use to securely communicate. All data is wrapped with several layers of encryption, and the network is both distributed and dynamic, with no trusted parties. This is the source code release version.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1159-01 - Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or private cloud deployments. This advisory contains the RPM packages for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.11.31.
Ubuntu Security Notice 5949-1 - It was discovered that Chromium could be made to write out of bounds in several components. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to corrupt memory via a crafted HTML page, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that Chromium show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 5948-1 - It was discovered that Werkzeug did not properly handle the parsing of nameless cookies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to shadow other cookies. It was discovered that Werkzeug could be made to process unlimited number of multipart form data parts. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Werkzeug to consume resources, leading to a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-1192-01 - This is a kernel live patch module which is automatically loaded by the RPM post-install script to modify the code of a running kernel. Issues addressed include a use-after-free vulnerability.
Financing will help support increasing customer demand while continuing to transform incident response for cloud and SaaS environments
Convergence of two leading cybersecurity companies creates federal sector powerhouse.
Government entities and large organizations have been targeted by an unknown threat actor by exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS software to result in data loss and OS and file corruption. "The complexity of the exploit suggests an advanced actor and that it is highly targeted at governmental or government-related targets," Fortinet researchers Guillaume Lovet and Alex Kong said in an
An open source adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kit has found a number of takers in the cybercrime world for its ability to orchestrate attacks at scale. Microsoft Threat Intelligence is tracking the threat actor behind the development of the kit under its emerging moniker DEV-1101. An AiTM phishing attack typically involves a threat actor attempting to steal and intercept a target's
A new Golang-based malware dubbed GoBruteforcer has been found targeting web servers running phpMyAdmin, MySQL, FTP, and Postgres to corral the devices into a botnet. "GoBruteforcer chose a Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) block for scanning the network during the attack, and it targeted all IP addresses within that CIDR range," Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers said. "The threat actor
Today, the LockBit ransomware is the most active and successful cybercrime organization in the world. Attributed to a Russian Threat Actor, LockBit has stepped out from the shadows of the Conti ransomware group, who were disbanded in early 2022. LockBit ransomware was first discovered in September 2019 and was previously known as ABCD ransomware because of the ".abcd virus" extension first
Graham Cluley Security News is sponsored this week by the folks at Sysdig. Thanks to the great team there for their support! Attacks targeting the software supply chain are on the rise and splashed across the news. SolarWinds raised awareness about the risk. More recent events, like the Federal Civilian Executive show more ...
A Ukrainian video game developer has revealed that a hacker has leaked development material stolen from the company's systems, and is threatening to release tens of gigabytes more if their unorthodox ransom demands are not met.
The latest annual FBI report on the state of cybercrime has shown a massive increase in the amount of money stolen through investment scams. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
